Beautiful products from My Minds Eye, Riff Raff Designs & Tattered Angels... ready to be made in something fabulous!

Focus & concentration.

Kim adds a little "something" to her first ever Starbucks!

Eager beavers first thing in the morning!

Trisha & Jill (who won the Grand Prize Trisha provided).

Ready to Party!

Colorful Christmas chipboard all ready for a Make&Take!
96 Sweet little Crave Cupcakes

Custom Candles made with love (thanks girls!)

Lots of great My Minds Eye prizes to be won.

Cute Metal signs for the Pick-a-stick game!

Today...

Today my "To Do" list seemed longer than normal. There were swimming lessons, laundry, Facebook-ing (Haha!), Cleaning & the usual Thursday items on it. Miles didn't sleep much last night which means I knew I wouldn't get everything on my list done, I knew it and I had accepted it. So imagine my surprise when I did. And I managed to sneak in a few bonus errands.

I stopped by Monkey Mountain, the new toy store in town, to pick up two birthday presents for Saturday (scratch that off tomorrows list!). I love this store. It's adorable. And it's so nice to have an option other than Wal-Mart (we all know how I feel about Wal-Mart!) in town. I am addicted to the wooden toys & puzzles made by Melissa & Doug (check out melissanddoug.com). This store has an amazing selection of their stuff. So, Teegan is getting a "cookie" set & Devyn is getting a puzzle. Perfect.

My girlfriend Teresa had a baby boy on the weekend. I stopped in to meet him today. He's beautiful & smells delicious. Welcome to the world little Seth Goldstein! We love you so much already!

A lot of people have been asking me what I am "making" with the white paper lanterns that are in the store. Nothing. Not a thing. But I am crossing another task off my list as they get hung from the ceilings tonight in preparation for our Weekend To Unwind Cocktail Party (on Friday November 6th!). Thanks to my brother-in-law* Ryan, Brian and my dad for their help. The store is gonna look so lovely.

Want to come to our event? Tickets are $15 & available now! Once you're in the door, you'll be privy to in-store specials, Crave Cupcakes (mmmmm), our open bar & best of all: an exclusive mini class with Trisha Ladouceur from My Minds Eye. There are prizes to be won & socializing to be done, so don't miss this fabulous evening. Ph. (403) 938.2391 for tickets. Hope to see you there!

So what's next? There's still a lot to do. I am looking for rolls of white paper to cover the tables. If anyone knows where I can get these please leave a comment. I also need some good trays for our servers that night...

* Not officially my brother-in-law but I can hope, non?

OMG.

Here is a little sneak-peak of the Technique Treasures Wall Hanging Class that is happening on our Weekend To Unwind.
It's Friggin Lovely. I love it. Love it.
There are still a couple spaces left in this class (all other classes are full, sorry!). The class is $48 and includes all supplies (small tool list required). I am so exited to be hosting this weekend.

The prizes for our weekend event and NEW product from My Minds Eye all arrived today as well. I am swimming in it!
Check out 3 new lines below (including the much anticipated Life Stories, which is printed on Kraft paper. And it rocks.)

More daily dose cards (below) to fill your pages. There is a "love you" one that I plan on using a lot. And I am drooling over this paper (multi-packs shown above) it really is as good as it looks. No, better.

Just Arrived!

As our Weekend to Unwind is nearing, the store is slowly filling up with great products that will be used in the classes taught be guest instructor Trisha Ladouceur. Tattered Angels goodies arrived today & there are so many great things I am excited to learn about. I am loving the chipboard (above). There are almost a dozen to choose from.
Glimmer Screens & Glimmer Mist (again, over a dozen to choose from!).

And I think I've saved the best for last. These are Bingo Boards. I am in love! They are vintage-y & cute. And I love the Halloween ones (look for other themes too!)

Just spoke with Todd from My Minds Eye about our November event, the Weekend To Unwind. If you weren't excited before... (Who are we kidding? Of course you were!) you will be now. My Minds Eye is sending us a boat load (or a box load) of prizes for our event. And they have also ensured we will have the two new releases before anyone else! Not bad for our little shoppe in Okotoks! (Pssst. I hear one of the new releases is all done on kraft paper! Woohoo!).

In other exciting news, Trisha Ladouceur, our MME teacher for the event has offered up some goods of her own (hells yeah!). If you register for the Weekend Pass ($210, all classes, crop & cocktail party included) you will be entered to win a prize valued at $100! And I've seen pictures of Trisha's stash, so let me tell you, this is going to be something you WANT to win. (If you've already bought the weekend pass, your name is in the "hat".)

Let's Recap:

There will be LOTS of prizes to be won at the

Weekend To Unwind

There are still spaces available*, so check out details by clicking on the flyer below.

* As of 11:30am, September 16th, 2009.

Sneak Peek!

Thought you might be dying to see (I know I am) a little sneak peek of one of Trisha Ladouceur's projects for the upcoming Weekend To Unwind. This is a small "snipit" of the Family Canvas class. It features the beautiful Ooh La La paper line from My Minds Eye. And of course there are lots of other goodies piled onto this beautiful art piece.

Registration begins at 9am on September 11th.

The individual cost for this class is $54. Purchase the weekend pass, which includes this class, 3 others, a Friday night cocktail party ticket & Sunday crop for $210.

The cost of the class covers all of the supplies, however, there is a short basic tool list.